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Sending emails from a task in Symfony 1.4

Sending emails from a task seems like it would be a pretty common, and therefore straightforward task (automated from a cron job for example), but in Symfony its not exactly trivial. The main reason is that you don’t have a context set from the task, and if you create one it doesn’t know the domain […]

Posted byPOSMay 5, 2011November 27, 2021Posted inTechTags: 1.4, code, symfony

How to design a cross browser compliant website.

I primarily fill my time freelancing doing PHP development work, but from time to time I find myself doing your standard Photoshop PSD to HTML/CSS implementation. If you’ve ever done this before you know how much of a nightmare it can be to get things right in Firefox, Safari, and all of the IE’s, but […]

Posted byPOSSeptember 1, 2009November 27, 2021Posted inTech

Gnome: The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.

This problem started so long ago that I really have no insight into when or why it first started happening, but for a while now, whenever I started X with the `startx` command, I would get the following error message: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, […]

Posted byPOSAugust 2, 2009November 27, 2021Posted inGentoo

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